The Yellow Birds

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" The Yellow Birds is harrowing, inexplicably beautiful, and utterly, urgently necessary."
— ANN PATCHETT
A novel written by a veteran of the war in Iraq, The Yellow Birds is the unforgettable story of two soldiers trying to stay alive.
f I 1 he war tried to kill us in the spring."
jL So begins this powerflil account of friendship and loss. In Al Tafar, Iraq, twenty-one-year-old Private Barde and eighteen-year-old Private Murphy cling to life as their platoon launches a bloody battle for the city. Bound together since basic training when Bartle makes a promise to bring Murphy safely home, the two have been dropped into a war neither is prepared for.
In the endless days that follow, the two young soldiers do everything to protect each other from the forces that press in on every side: the insurgents, physical fatigue, and the mental stress that comes from constant danger. As reality begins to blur into a hazy nightmare, Murphy becomes increasingly unmoored from the world... Tovább

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" The Yellow Birds is harrowing, inexplicably beautiful, and utterly, urgently necessary."
— ANN PATCHETT
A novel written by a veteran of the war in Iraq, The Yellow Birds is the unforgettable story of two soldiers trying to stay alive.
f I 1 he war tried to kill us in the spring."
jL So begins this powerflil account of friendship and loss. In Al Tafar, Iraq, twenty-one-year-old Private Barde and eighteen-year-old Private Murphy cling to life as their platoon launches a bloody battle for the city. Bound together since basic training when Bartle makes a promise to bring Murphy safely home, the two have been dropped into a war neither is prepared for.
In the endless days that follow, the two young soldiers do everything to protect each other from the forces that press in on every side: the insurgents, physical fatigue, and the mental stress that comes from constant danger. As reality begins to blur into a hazy nightmare, Murphy becomes increasingly unmoored from the world around him, and Bartle takes actions he never could have imagined.
Written with profound emotional insight, especially into the effects of a distant war on mothers and families at home. The Yellow Birds is a groundbreaking novel that is destined to become a classic.
KEVIN POWERS was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University, and holds an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin, where he was a Michener Fellow in Poetry. He served in the U.S. Army in 2004 and 2005 in Iraq, where he was deployed as a machine gunner in Mosul and Tal Afar. This is his first novel.
"This is a novel I've been waiting for. The Yellow Birds is born from experience and rendered with compassion and intelHgence."
— ALICE SEBOLD
"The Yellow Birds is written with an intensity which is deeply compelling; every moment, every memory, every object, every move, is conjured up with a fierce and exact concentration and sense of truth." — COLM TOIBiN
"Powers has created a powerful work of art that captures the complexity and life-altering realities of combat service. This book will endure. Read it and then put it way up on that high rare shelf alongside Ernest Hemingway
and Tim O'Brien."
— ANTHONY SWOFFORD
"The minute I read Kevin Povi^ers's marvelous first sentence, I knew I was in the hands of an exceptional writer. That line is right up there with 'Call me Ishmael.' The best books transcend their time and circumstances to say something enduring and truthful about war itself. The Yellow Birds belongs in that category." — PHILIP CAPUTO
"Reading The Yellow Birds I became certain that I was in the presence of a text that will win plaudits, become a classic, and hold future narratives of the war to a higher standard a superb literary achievement."
— CHRIS CLEAVE
"Compelling, brilliantly written, and heartbreakingly true, The Yellow Birds belongs in the same category as Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried and Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead." — PHILIPP MEYER
"Kevin Powers has delivered an exceptional novel from the war in Iraq, written in clean, evocative prose, lyric and graphic, in assured rhythms, a story for today and tomorrow and the next."
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